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Leal, a Bogota, Colombia-based retail tech company providing customer engagement in Latin America, raised $5 million in a round that CEO Camilo Martinez called a “pre-Series B.” LEAP Global Partners and Rakuten Capital co-led the round and were joined by Morro Ventures and Salkantay Ventures. Leal works with business-to-consumer brands, e-commerce sites and financial institutions across Latin America to enable merchants to create a customer database to then offer cashback and rew...

As part of its mission to promote innovation in STEM on the island, the parallel18 pre-acceleration program (pre18) and the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) -both programs of the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust (PRSTR)-, celebrated over the weekend the Demo Day of the Challenge to Innovate: NASA Edition student challenge. A total of 20 groups composed of students from local universities in the areas of electrical, mechanical, computer, agricultural and industrial engineering, a...